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but being a leader is also someone who can silt down with harry reid and john boehner and say how can we fix this and that's what we're looking for. >> all through his presidency, even democrats said that they weren't able to get face time and sit down and have these conversations with the president when they thought it was important. if he hasn't built those sort of relationships with those leaders, how can people expect that he l sit down -- it would be change for him, a major change from the way he operates and he will say he won the election and elections have consequences and basically it's the law of the land, it's been upheld by the supreme court and there's no conversation to have. >> he's an aloof president, if there's one way to describe obama, he's an aloof president who's a very good campaigner. that's him in a nut shul. good at campaigning, terrible -- doesn't have the relationships, even on his sewn site. and now you're seeing over the weekend that democrats are starting to vote with the republicans in the house. one thing that people forget and they shouldn't, and the h
but being a leader is also someone who can silt down with harry reid and john boehner and say how can we fix this and that's what we're looking for. >> all through his presidency, even democrats said that they weren't able to get face time and sit down and have these conversations with the president when they thought it was important. if he hasn't built those sort of relationships with those leaders, how can people expect that he l sit down -- it would be change for him, a major change...
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harry reid can't put a budget together in three years. the other problem is blocks on it secretly. there is a lot of things can be better. it is it not really going to solve the problem because it allows them . it doesn't seem like the mcgain levin plan is a good one. it doesn't require the parking filibuster that jimmy stewart made so famous. the main point. if 61 senators want to act they will act. they ought to lower the thres hold from 60 down to 55 . say a majority rules . 51 votes. we will bring up a bill. and it is the 51 percent should do it it is the latest. it is it a good or excellent job. i wonder your thoughts . and now the debt sealing. and cuts to popular program. and i wonder if you think it is. message was american people wanted status quo . and they expect it in goverping. but they don't want the status quo. they want comp -- compromise. you don't just hand over control. founding fathers wanted a stop gap to make sure minority retained its rights. we have a majority leader who will not let the bills hit the floor. >> brad brad. i don't think the founding fathers c
harry reid can't put a budget together in three years. the other problem is blocks on it secretly. there is a lot of things can be better. it is it not really going to solve the problem because it allows them . it doesn't seem like the mcgain levin plan is a good one. it doesn't require the parking filibuster that jimmy stewart made so famous. the main point. if 61 senators want to act they will act. they ought to lower the thres hold from 60 down to 55 . say a majority rules . 51 votes. we...
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for that matter, neither has harry reid. this morning, the republicans are expecting that we might have some kind of an arrangement worked out, how we could proceed on the senate side. right now that is not going to happen. i expect it more from harry reid and i expect more from the president. >> give me a sense, you know, give us insight to what that meeting was light? what was the mood of the president when all of the senators met with him? >> proffesorial. we would ask specifically what about this? obviously we had the collins plan. we had other plans as well. i think the biggest thing that republicans want to see is an answer to our long-term debt. everybody is worried about the government shutdown. i don't want the shutdown. i don't know anybody that wants the shutdown. but unless we really cure our long-term debt problems, we are going to have a permanent shutdown. we will be bankrupt. so we'd like to see on the table precisely what the president would like to talk about and hopefully agree with, with regard to the lon
for that matter, neither has harry reid. this morning, the republicans are expecting that we might have some kind of an arrangement worked out, how we could proceed on the senate side. right now that is not going to happen. i expect it more from harry reid and i expect more from the president. >> give me a sense, you know, give us insight to what that meeting was light? what was the mood of the president when all of the senators met with him? >> proffesorial. we would ask...
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harry reid thinks about this every morning when gets up. you mentioned mark in alaska and mary landrieu in laz and mark pryor in arkansas and other democrats from around the country that face electorates that are prosecond amendment and he does not want to force them into these kinds of votes. sounds like he will slow walk this thing and see what happens. you mentioned joe mansion earlier he and republican senator mark kirk from illinois have a compromise piece of legislation that says we can't get a gun ban through but expand background checks to a way that works that is a sensible system and everybody is sharing information. they are working with the nra on it. that is one possibility of something that could actually pass. >> shannon: you bring up background checks. concern about those supportive of gun rights how far it goes. they say if your grand daddy gives you his shotgun for christmas that he used on his first deer hunting trip is that subject to a background check. sounds like those kinds of transactions would be subject to a backg
harry reid thinks about this every morning when gets up. you mentioned mark in alaska and mary landrieu in laz and mark pryor in arkansas and other democrats from around the country that face electorates that are prosecond amendment and he does not want to force them into these kinds of votes. sounds like he will slow walk this thing and see what happens. you mentioned joe mansion earlier he and republican senator mark kirk from illinois have a compromise piece of legislation that says we can't...
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harry reid is going to have to step up to the plate as well in the senate to walk with congress, the house side, and with work with the administration, you can't just blame republicans here and the president talks about congress paying its bills, part of its bills the president ran up when nancy pelosi was speaker and ran all of these policies through and helped with the debt as well, mary anne. >> jamie: for the record, the minority speaker nancy pelosi says if she were president, she would raise the debt ceiling on her own, but she says she's not. we'll wait and see what happens. ladies, thanks for weighing in today. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. >> jamie: rick? >> well, jamie, police in minnesota arresting a pilot for american eagle airlines after tsa officials smelled alcohol on his breath. the officer's name, here he is before he was supposed to fly from minneapolis to new york's laguardia airport. and they found his blood alcohol well above the legal limit. the arrest in middle of the flight preparations before the passengers boarded the plane. the and the incident
harry reid is going to have to step up to the plate as well in the senate to walk with congress, the house side, and with work with the administration, you can't just blame republicans here and the president talks about congress paying its bills, part of its bills the president ran up when nancy pelosi was speaker and ran all of these policies through and helped with the debt as well, mary anne. >> jamie: for the record, the minority speaker nancy pelosi says if she were president, she...
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. >> reporter: harry reid says he supports the second amendment but he is not going on to let the nra getting in his way. >> just because they resist it doesn't mean we can't do things. we have a lot of special interest groups complain about things, we'll listen to them and make the right decision. >> he says the senate might soon debate on an assault weapons ban something that gabrielle giffords's husband argued for today. >> i spent 25 years in the military. i know the value of having an assault weapon and i think they are way too readily available. in time we will be able to address those issues. >> nra said enforcing existing laws would reduce gun violence and so would rounding up gangs in places like chicago. >> gregg: peter, thanks. >> heather: new information now on a charter bus crash in boston that left 35 people injured and one critically. the vehicle carrying high schoolers and chaperones it slammed into an overpass. the driver of the bus ignored road clearance warning signs. passengers say the impact was violent. >> police say an investigation will determine if the driver
. >> reporter: harry reid says he supports the second amendment but he is not going on to let the nra getting in his way. >> just because they resist it doesn't mean we can't do things. we have a lot of special interest groups complain about things, we'll listen to them and make the right decision. >> he says the senate might soon debate on an assault weapons ban something that gabrielle giffords's husband argued for today. >> i spent 25 years in the military. i know the...
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but harry reid is scared to death about this. that's why he's blocking a vote. eric, i don't have any crystal ball. i don't know if it could be the key to solving the overall impasse. but it's something we should do. what rule one of american democracy should be that washington is treated the same as america. what washington passes for america, it lives with itself. sort of like a restaurant. if the cook isn't eating at the restaurant, something's wrong. that should be rule one of democracy. >> but the democrats and the white house blame you guys, the republicans, as jihadists and hostage takers. >> again on this no washington exemption from obama care issue, president obama and harry reid are the leading opponents of that. again, i think the message from the american people is clear. there should be the same rums for everybody. whether we're talking about obama care or anything else. that's what the whole new washington exemption from obama care language and amendment that i'm pushing is about. hopefully that can be part of some final resolution. >> senator, we
but harry reid is scared to death about this. that's why he's blocking a vote. eric, i don't have any crystal ball. i don't know if it could be the key to solving the overall impasse. but it's something we should do. what rule one of american democracy should be that washington is treated the same as america. what washington passes for america, it lives with itself. sort of like a restaurant. if the cook isn't eating at the restaurant, something's wrong. that should be rule one of democracy....
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to me i think harry reid should accept the proposal. if he doesn't i don't want the government to shut down and i don't see how i can vote again to any more amending to obama care. there's too many innocent people involved here. we have too many people in our party, it's a minority, who are following ted cruz and tying up the entire republican party. the overwhelming majority of house members would vote to keep the government open. i'm tired of having ted cruz call the shots for the house republicans. >> i was kind of surprised when he talked that whole time that he didn't just read the bill into the record. something that the american people might have watched and then learned what obama care actually meant for them. as someone that's on the financial services committee, do you have an accurate sense of what obama care would cost now and if delaying it for a year would really put this country more on track economically? >> no. we're not sure of what the consequences are going to be but we're very concern they're going to be bad consequ
to me i think harry reid should accept the proposal. if he doesn't i don't want the government to shut down and i don't see how i can vote again to any more amending to obama care. there's too many innocent people involved here. we have too many people in our party, it's a minority, who are following ted cruz and tying up the entire republican party. the overwhelming majority of house members would vote to keep the government open. i'm tired of having ted cruz call the shots for the house...
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i hope that harry reid, the majority leader will not push that. i know he's been in negotiations with mitch mcconnell and other leaders to try to thwart that and try to come up with a workable reform, short of that. if he does that, you still have the house. >> senator richard shelby, thank you. good to see you, sir. >> gun shows are coming under new scrutiny after the shooting in newtown, water wawkt wawkt. waterbury, the local police chief has decided to stop issuing gun show permits until further notice. he says he didn't want any future guns to be traced back to gun shows in waterbury. meanwhile, in nashville, north carolina, members of the city council are trying to ban gun shows at city-owned sites. we go live. there is a gun show this weekend. hi, elizabeth. >> a very popular gun show. but just like you said, there is a debate brewing across the nation on whether or not the gun shows should be banned. we are seeing the gun shows in new york and connecticut cancelled here. but here in asheville, north carolina, you can see the gun show conti
i hope that harry reid, the majority leader will not push that. i know he's been in negotiations with mitch mcconnell and other leaders to try to thwart that and try to come up with a workable reform, short of that. if he does that, you still have the house. >> senator richard shelby, thank you. good to see you, sir. >> gun shows are coming under new scrutiny after the shooting in newtown, water wawkt wawkt. waterbury, the local police chief has decided to stop issuing gun show...
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harry reid could bring them back tomorrow. our country's military and service is so much more important than vacation. come on back and get pizza and something to drink and bang it out and they are not doing that and that is shameful. former stiantor scott brown, great to stee you, thank you. >> senator lindsay graham made news on fox news sunday. brand new information about an old speech by chuck hagel. the latest on the confirmation is next . calling the president obama the biggest set of law breakerings. the virginia attorney general is not pulling punches. talk about regulation over load coming up. hi. hi. i'm here to pick up some cacti. it should be under stephens. the verizon share everything plan for small business. get a shareable pool of data... got enough joshua trees? ... on up to 25 devices. so you can spend less time... yea, the golden barrels... managing wireless costs and technology and more time driving your business potential. looks like we're going to need to order more agaves... ah! oh! ow! ... and more band
harry reid could bring them back tomorrow. our country's military and service is so much more important than vacation. come on back and get pizza and something to drink and bang it out and they are not doing that and that is shameful. former stiantor scott brown, great to stee you, thank you. >> senator lindsay graham made news on fox news sunday. brand new information about an old speech by chuck hagel. the latest on the confirmation is next . calling the president obama the biggest set...
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. >> shannon: senate majority leader harry reid says he has the utmost confidence in fellow senator robert menendez. he has been mentioned in connection with an fbi investigation into one of his political donors. reid said that he is sure menendez did nothing wrong and proving that is what investigations are all about. >>> the next big legislative debate here in washington. guns. peter doocy has the latest. hello, peter. >> reporter: talk on capitol hill about perhaps trying to set up a universal background check system to reduce gun violence. wane la pear from the national rifle association said that wouldn't do anything. >> it is a fraud to call it universal. it willle never be universal. the criminals aren't going to comply with it. they could care less. you have already seen you are not going to computerize the mental health records. we ought to quit calling it right now a universal check. the title ought to be a check on law abiding people all over the country. >> reporter: senate majority leader harry reid who says he thinks it is possible to support the second amendment and universa
. >> shannon: senate majority leader harry reid says he has the utmost confidence in fellow senator robert menendez. he has been mentioned in connection with an fbi investigation into one of his political donors. reid said that he is sure menendez did nothing wrong and proving that is what investigations are all about. >>> the next big legislative debate here in washington. guns. peter doocy has the latest. hello, peter. >> reporter: talk on capitol hill about perhaps...
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coburn saying harry reid's refusal to adhere to regular order and bring appropriation bills to the floor contributes to congress' lack of oversight of federal government spending in 2013. >>> okay, as we get closer to christmas, santa and his workshop making a quick stop here in d.c. to check in with hundreds of youngsteres who are anxiously awaiting to see if he will help make christmas wishes come true. the city does dress up for the holiday and pauses to capture the spirit of the season and nowhere is that more apparent than through the eyes of children. next, we'll hear from santa himself. ♪ ho ho ho [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. some are giant. some not so giant. when managing your weight, bigger is always better. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant it's not the "limit the cash i earnvery month" card. it's not the "i only earn decent rewards at the gas station" card. it's the no-games, no-signing up, everyday-rewarding, kung-fu-fighting, silver-lightning-in-a-bottle, bringing-home-the-bacon cash back card. this is the quicksilver card from capital one
coburn saying harry reid's refusal to adhere to regular order and bring appropriation bills to the floor contributes to congress' lack of oversight of federal government spending in 2013. >>> okay, as we get closer to christmas, santa and his workshop making a quick stop here in d.c. to check in with hundreds of youngsteres who are anxiously awaiting to see if he will help make christmas wishes come true. the city does dress up for the holiday and pauses to capture the spirit of the...
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where the president received fewer than 42 percent of the votes. >> leader harry reid will make guns one of the earliest things we consider. chairman leahy has talked about hearings right away. we will see action quickly. >> there are 20 democratic senate seats up for grabs in 2014 including in arkansas, alaska, iowa, south dakota, and new hampshire and democrats learned a lesson in 1994 after the assault weapons ban passed they lost control of the house of representatives which suggests compromise could be in the works. >>gregg: but that invites the question, what kind of compromise? >>reporter: we got a taste of what could pass in both houses today. here is what we could find agreement on. >> this is a moment we can do something about mental health, information sharing, maybe about background checks and other things but it has to be a plan that could work or the president will not get it done. >> we do not expect it all to pass but in elements of this that are critical. >> the president has vowed he will do everything he can to reduce gun related carnage and putting to work the sam
where the president received fewer than 42 percent of the votes. >> leader harry reid will make guns one of the earliest things we consider. chairman leahy has talked about hearings right away. we will see action quickly. >> there are 20 democratic senate seats up for grabs in 2014 including in arkansas, alaska, iowa, south dakota, and new hampshire and democrats learned a lesson in 1994 after the assault weapons ban passed they lost control of the house of representatives which...
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and harry reid spent more money than any of the other candidates in order to get the weakest republican into the general election knowing that they had a very difficult uphill fight in missouri and sure enough they got the weakest candidate and he blew himself up with the infamous current about illegitimate rape. >> you say it is to put in more quote electable candidates. the conservative wing of the republican party says the most eledgable is the most moderate and that is not necessarily the people they want to see running for office. >> lock, look, looking, look, look, look, let's be clear about this. cross roads support for tea party candidates. we are the largest financial backers of tea party candidates for the senate and the house. we spent over $30 million for tea party senate candidate. over $25 million for house candidates. $2.9 million for marco rubio. more than any other group in the general election. $2.7 million for rand paul. $8 million in colorado for ken buck. $5.1 million in nevada for sharon angle. pat toomey the former head of club for growth. we spent $1.4 million mo
and harry reid spent more money than any of the other candidates in order to get the weakest republican into the general election knowing that they had a very difficult uphill fight in missouri and sure enough they got the weakest candidate and he blew himself up with the infamous current about illegitimate rape. >> you say it is to put in more quote electable candidates. the conservative wing of the republican party says the most eledgable is the most moderate and that is not necessarily...
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an indicted utah businessman is trying to tie senate majority leader harry reid to an alleged bribery scream. ger jeremy johnson, chark wednesday money laundering and bank fraud said that the utah attorney general set up a deal for him to pay more than a half million to reid to make a federal investigation go away. swallow strongly denies the charges. no comment from reid's office yet. former president george h.w. bush may be heading home if a houston hospital soon, admitted from a bronchitis-related cough before thanksgiving. wee he could be discharge inside the coming weeks. miss new york, mallory hagan is the new miss america, beating out 52 other candidates last night for the $50,000 scholarship prize. now, i will send it back to a former miss virginia and miss america finalist, shannon bream. >> shannon: aren't you going to tell them about your mr. america finalist? >> reporter: that's not real. >> shannon: all right. thanks. a momentary reprieve from ousted president hosni mubarak, ordering a retrial. it's been nearly two years, since mubarak was sentenced on the charges, he fai
an indicted utah businessman is trying to tie senate majority leader harry reid to an alleged bribery scream. ger jeremy johnson, chark wednesday money laundering and bank fraud said that the utah attorney general set up a deal for him to pay more than a half million to reid to make a federal investigation go away. swallow strongly denies the charges. no comment from reid's office yet. former president george h.w. bush may be heading home if a houston hospital soon, admitted from a...
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. >> let me ask these guys, has the president pick up the phone and called harry reid and said, can we get this guy confirmed? >> i don't think so. i think this is a fight they want because panetta, the outgoing secretary of defense, he said sequestration is a disaster and hagel has said the opposite. >> he is weak on iran and other things against intervention anywhere. greg degree going back do the sequestration, the $110 billion will happen in two months and they just kicked the can down the road so the president will get out and campaign, now. what do you make of that? >> he will get out and campaign for more spending, for continuing the right to borrow, extending the debt limit. bottom line, he will campaign against the sequestration because there is no republican land and both sides, boehner and the president have said no more negotiation. >>gregg: the president does not want to negotiate. >> he wants to say we need more revenue except for my friends, the people i protect. >>gregg: is this a divisive president? >> this is the most divisive president in history and the only way he
. >> let me ask these guys, has the president pick up the phone and called harry reid and said, can we get this guy confirmed? >> i don't think so. i think this is a fight they want because panetta, the outgoing secretary of defense, he said sequestration is a disaster and hagel has said the opposite. >> he is weak on iran and other things against intervention anywhere. greg degree going back do the sequestration, the $110 billion will happen in two months and they just kicked...
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harry reid may envoke closure to block a filibuster, but then use another rule to change the bill by a simple majority and taking out the measure that would de fund obama square. obamacare. here ised it cruz. -- here is ted cruz. >> any vote that would add funding for obamacare with a 51-vote threshold, a vote for closure is a vote for obamacare. they will speak side by side and listening to the people and stoping the train wreck that is obamacare. >> the hopes of de funding obamacare are given little chance of success even by other high-profile republicans. kentucky senator rand paul said we probably can't defeat or get rid of obamacare. and president obama himself speaking to the congressional black caucus, said de funding the health care law, it is not going to happen. others say they are pushing to eliminate a central pillar of their own budget. >> here they are running around the country on the one hand saying let's get rid of the affordable care act. and yet they passed a budget that only comes to balance because of it. that's misleading and that's a hoax. they should explain t
harry reid may envoke closure to block a filibuster, but then use another rule to change the bill by a simple majority and taking out the measure that would de fund obama square. obamacare. here ised it cruz. -- here is ted cruz. >> any vote that would add funding for obamacare with a 51-vote threshold, a vote for closure is a vote for obamacare. they will speak side by side and listening to the people and stoping the train wreck that is obamacare. >> the hopes of de funding...
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what is the letter from the majority leader harry reid say the president should do and how many senators signed on? >> most of senate leadership signed on. it encourages all the important top senate leaders including senator reid, chuck schumer and dick durbin. they told the president to use any quote, any lawful steps, unquote that the debt limit goes up even if congress doesn't pass a law saying it could go up. the reason they are doing that is because president has been told by speaker boehner he won't allow the debt ceiling to go up unless there is a dollar for dollar tradeoff in cuts. >> the last deal went through without the spending cuts. the president does have some authority, doesn't he, to take care of the debt limit on his own. is there a compromise between that and getting bipartisan support for an agreement? >> right. any lawful steps. that is the big mystery, what are the lawful steps. two steps that people are talking about. one that is seemingly quite legal but sort of wacky sounding and one is questionably legal but mainstream. wacky one would be minting a trillion dolla
what is the letter from the majority leader harry reid say the president should do and how many senators signed on? >> most of senate leadership signed on. it encourages all the important top senate leaders including senator reid, chuck schumer and dick durbin. they told the president to use any quote, any lawful steps, unquote that the debt limit goes up even if congress doesn't pass a law saying it could go up. the reason they are doing that is because president has been told by speaker...
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as bad as it is in my view, the president is not going to do it and nor is harry reid and the democratic majority going to pass it and that is what will be required. you can shutdown the federal government if you thought that would be a good idea, but because of mandatory spending obamacare will continue to be funded. i think this is a disagreement among family about tactics and not about the goal. >> also, august is a time that most folks are home and meeting with the con titch stitch -- constituents and holding town halls. some say they would rather see you in person and they didn't get a chance. what is the story on the town hall? >> i have been back in texas. i just came back to dc. i will be heading out again tomorrow. i am happy to meet with my constituents. i represent 26 million people. i can't be everywhere at one time. one of the things we have found that works pretty well is to leverage technology to reach out to literally 100,000 people on a given evening. but this is a supplement and not a replacement for face-to-face meetings. i represented the people of my state for a long
as bad as it is in my view, the president is not going to do it and nor is harry reid and the democratic majority going to pass it and that is what will be required. you can shutdown the federal government if you thought that would be a good idea, but because of mandatory spending obamacare will continue to be funded. i think this is a disagreement among family about tactics and not about the goal. >> also, august is a time that most folks are home and meeting with the con titch stitch --...
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reid and democrats and environmental agency head. both had to meet 60 vote threshold. now it has happened to hagel. the third time in ten years. so it's not unprecedented. my question to you, why rush it? >> because the department of defense is responsible for our military. we are currently in conflict right now. i think this is something that has to deal with national security. you really need to get serious and get to work here. we can't be talking about things that are not relevant. they are asking for information about benghazi and chuck hagel had nothing to do with benghazi. if you wanted questions about that you need to talk on other people. >> heather: they got one of those questions answered, that is whether or not president obama himself personally called libyan officials on the night of september 11th but the respect on hagel to get a simple answer which we now know the answer was no. brad? >> you are absolutely right. we had some leverage over the white house and hagel was used at that leverage to get the white house to co
reid and democrats and environmental agency head. both had to meet 60 vote threshold. now it has happened to hagel. the third time in ten years. so it's not unprecedented. my question to you, why rush it? >> because the department of defense is responsible for our military. we are currently in conflict right now. i think this is something that has to deal with national security. you really need to get serious and get to work here. we can't be talking about things that are not relevant....
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is not when hair arery reid is going to move because harry reid is not a profiles in courage leadership kind of guy. he is a will of his caucus kind of guy. he stepped out in front very few times. generally what he does is reflect the general consensus of his caucus. if he is going to move and take a chance it has to be because the president is pushing him, pushing him, pushing him and we heard from senator feinstein last week the president they believe that nothing is going to happen unless he gets out in front and leads on this. remember, this is one of the three gs for liberals in the second obama term. gay marriage. global warming and guns. and these are the three biggest issues for the left and if the president looks like he is dragging his feet on this they will get cranky and then to take us back to senator king's point they will be less inclined to do something that they have already shown very little in krieneation to do which is to address the long-term drivers of the debt meddeficit particularly did i. >> shannon: senator cruz said he was surprised that senator feinstein got
is not when hair arery reid is going to move because harry reid is not a profiles in courage leadership kind of guy. he is a will of his caucus kind of guy. he stepped out in front very few times. generally what he does is reflect the general consensus of his caucus. if he is going to move and take a chance it has to be because the president is pushing him, pushing him, pushing him and we heard from senator feinstein last week the president they believe that nothing is going to happen unless he...
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in a letter to senator majority harry reid, to defund a baum care to strategy is not achievable. is it? >> i think it is achievable, but i think we have to, look, if i ape accept your premise and i agree on some level there is spending challenges in d.c.. >> can we all agree on that for god's sakes? >> i don't agree. i'm saying, even accepting that premise, i think the challenge, julie, is what are we spending our money on? that's what we're coming down to, where the rubber meets the road is are we going to defund the things that actually help americans, help the middle class grow or are we going to think about the overblown military budget? down that has less impact? >> you think this comes down to defunding what helps middle america on a let's say obamacare bill basically that is agreed upon by 50% of ami was going to look, in terms, the more people find out about this, the scarier it gets. right now, companies are starting to shrink, they're taking away health care from part-time workers. there are companies taking away benefits for spouses and retirees. this will grow and gro
in a letter to senator majority harry reid, to defund a baum care to strategy is not achievable. is it? >> i think it is achievable, but i think we have to, look, if i ape accept your premise and i agree on some level there is spending challenges in d.c.. >> can we all agree on that for god's sakes? >> i don't agree. i'm saying, even accepting that premise, i think the challenge, julie, is what are we spending our money on? that's what we're coming down to, where the rubber...
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harry reid has promised he is not going to do that for all of this congress through 2014. he has promised that publicly many different times. he could walk away from that and break his promise and his word and his word would be worth nothing but we'll see. >> shannon: senator david vitter, thanks very much. >>> with the deadly colorado wildfires 60% contained. many people are returning home. recent showers have aided the firefighters. extreme weather in arizona, monsoon season starts around 4th of july but this time it showed up early. they have had torrential rains causing flash flooding in low-lying areas. experts are warning that the strong winds and lightning could spark potential wildfires. monsoon season will continue through the 30th of september. >>> still to come, sources say the c.i.a. will run the program to run weapons to syrian rebels. we will ask ted poe how that will work. and dream vacation this summer? better take your wallet. brenda buttner has the scoop. >> this is with task force in afghanistan and i want to wish my dad a happy father's day and to my da
harry reid has promised he is not going to do that for all of this congress through 2014. he has promised that publicly many different times. he could walk away from that and break his promise and his word and his word would be worth nothing but we'll see. >> shannon: senator david vitter, thanks very much. >>> with the deadly colorado wildfires 60% contained. many people are returning home. recent showers have aided the firefighters. extreme weather in arizona, monsoon season...